Nation Topics - Doug Henwood | The Nation

Economists and wonks respond to Thomas Geoghegan's Nation essay “What Would Keynes Do?”

In a capitalist economy, the government needs channels to use taxpayers' money to work on social needs, needs that cannot easily be met through market mechanisms.

This week: Chuck Collins, Doug Henwood and Barbara Ehrenreich. Sarah Anderson lays out a 12-step program for "ending plutocracy." Gary Younge on Obama and the power of symbols.

In this age of inequality, the wealth that should be shared by all Americans trickle up to the rich.

In her latest shipboard dispatch, one passenger resists fear of global warming, is charmed by Rocky Anderson and manages not to do what so many others have contemplated.

Readers attack Alexander Cockburn for doubting the environmental crisis--and Cockburn bites back.

PARDON ME, DO YOU SPEAK LIBERAL?

Bellingham, Wash.

Comments on Iran, Wal-Mart and John Roberts.

'SLOW-MOTION BHOPAL'

Edison, NJ

This clutch of books offers
an excellent retrospective on the recent stock-market crash, which
wiped out $8.5 trillion in market value.